The good news: Today’s TRAINS News Wire is now live with photos from the UP/BNSF collision in Rochelle from Friday night. Click here to read today’s News Wire.
The bad news: Our weekly e-mail newsletter that typically goes out on Monday evenings is going to be delayed until Tuesday afternoon as we upgrade some of our servers.
Thanks,
Erik
nice… is thier any place where you can get the video feed as it happend… not the still frames?
csx engineer
Just wondering…
Did the NTSB, BNSF and or UP ask for copies of the tape or feed?
Ed
Also noted was the announcement about the C.P.R. buying a few green goats on the way to purchasing more in the future.
Interesting.
How does something like this happen? I would think some special flag is set when a MOW machine is on the tracks???
…Video Cam sure shows the merchandise strewed over the ground where the container was ripped open…Too bad we don’t have a way to play the scene back. Even enough lights on scene to allow us to see rather well…
Surely the engine crew had to ignore at least 2 warning lights to get that close to an opposing train on the tracks…! Are those lights the last line of defense when the engineer “runs” the signals…
someone ran a red light is how it happend…to put it in very simple terms…and from what i read so far…it was the railgrinder that ran the stop signal…and smashed into the side of the train at the dimond… when MOW equpment is moving on rails…its just like a train…and is governed by the same signals as a train… the only time thier would be a flag is if MOW mechenery is tied down on a sideing or stub track…then it is protected with a derail that has a “flag” saying derail…and if mechanical persons are working on the equpment…it is then protected with a derail and blue flag…but when its moving on main tracks…it has to follow signal indications and dispatchers orders…just like a train…
csx engineer
Bergie,
Thanks for posting that,as CW & I both had tried several times earlier to pull
up the “Trains News Wire” for that particular article,with no luck.
My thanks as well. Does anyone know if the signals were operating properly on the UPRR or was the rail grinder engineer just not thinking? [:o)]
If the signals were not operating,the rail grinder should have considered the signal to be at its most restrictive aspect,which is usually red.Also,at the slow speed rail grinders operate,it seems to me that the operator should have been able to see,or hear,the freight in time to avoid a collision.
Hi Ed,
Not for official purposes… yet.
Erik
Accidents happen everyday and many it is easy to see why but with this it seems very strange a slow moving rig {if it was really working}, would not be able to prevent the hit…Almost seems like no one in control.